Maleficent digital painting tutorial

Maleficent digital painting tutorial part 3 of 4. I did not intend it to make it four part in the beginning. I was set out for only three for this set of tutorial. But then I end up adding people in the background to complete the whole scene. This tutorial is the third part of the series that I made for illustration tutorial. In part one, I draw a character with pencil and paper. Part two, I use Sketchbook Pro 6 to rough out base color and basic design for her. This part, I am showing you how to paint Maleficent and finish the illustration in Photoshop CS5.
In this scene, I follow the original children book story line. “The turn of old fairy had now come, and she declared, while her head shook with malice, that the princess should pierce her hand with a spindle and die of the wound. This dreadful fate threw all the company into tears of dismay,” And below is the image I come up with.

About Xia Taptara

Xia Taptara (黃曉聲 Huang XiaoShēng), currently a freelance concept artist for games and films, formerly a character concept artist for ArenaNet/NCsoft (GuildWars & Guildwars 2). I also work on various projects for Game of Thrones, Square-Enix, Paizo Publishing, Fantasy Fight Games, Disney Interactive, and many publishers & clients. I use Wacom Tablet Intuos and Photoshop CS2,3,4,5 to do most of my professional art work. I use pencil, pen, and traditional medium in my free time. I founded IdrawGirls.com (TheArtClasses.com) in 2007 to motivate myself to create more and better art. Also I get to draw and paint whatever the hell I want to. Hopefully I can inspired some young soul and old soul alike.
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